ABOUT CAROLYN LITTLE, MA

Carolyn Little, MA, is a transformational guide, grief and death doula, healing artist, and embodiment practitioner devoted to the liberation of the human spirit. Her work lives at the intersection of embodiment, nervous-system intelligence, spiritual practice, and social systems, supporting people and communities through the thresholds that reshape life.

Carolyn accompanies people through the tender passages of loss, change, and becoming, creating spaces where grief, ritual, and renewal can awaken joy and aliveness. Through long-term mentorship, she walks beside individuals navigating significant life transitions, listening for what is ending, what is emerging, and what the deeper intelligence of the body and spirit may be asking of them.

Across nearly three decades, Carolyn’s work has spanned teaching yoga, meditation, and embodied movement practices; leading retreats and transformational programs around the world; and teaching emotional intelligence and mindfulness to leaders within Fortune 500 companies. Her early work in local and international social justice, including women’s health initiatives in Venezuela, shaped a lifelong commitment to collective liberation and an understanding that individual transformation cannot be separated from the systems, communities, and cultures in which we live.

In recent years, Carolyn’s work has deepened into grief, death, and the rituals that help us metabolize profound change. As a grief and death doula, she leads ceremonies and supports individuals and families through end of life, loss, and transition. She understands grief not simply as a personal experience, but as an essential human intelligence, one that can reconnect us to meaning, belonging, one another, and the living world.

Carolyn bridges sacred wisdom and contemporary systems, drawing on deep listening, ritual, embodied intelligence, and sustained practice across contemplative and ancestral healing lineages. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations with a focus on liberation psychology and is a board-certified Holistic Health Practitioner, a 1000+ hour Registered Yoga and Meditation Teacher with nearly two decades of teaching experience, and a Reiki Master.

She is also a Moon Dancer, Obsidian Pipe Carrier, and Priestess of the Feminine Arts, lineages that inform how she guides people through life’s deeper initiations, including identity shifts, death and dying, ancestral healing, and spiritual emergence.

At the heart of Carolyn’s work is an understanding that healing is relational and cyclical, and that our well-being is inseparable from the well-being of our communities, cultures, and the earth. In a time marked by speed, disconnection, and extraction, her work invites a different way of being, one rooted in presence, reciprocity, vulnerability, care, and the remembrance of our inherent belonging.

In honoring grief, endings, and the places where life asks us to surrender what has been, we also make space to reclaim joy, awe, pleasure, wonder, and the fullness of being alive.